Amanda Hess
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Amanda Hess is an American journalist who has written for magazines including Wired, ESPN, and Elle. As of February 2016, she was a staff writer for Slate and also a contributor to the New York Times Magazine.[1][2][3] In March 2016, she was named one of three inaugural David Carr Fellowship recipients at the New York Times.[4] She is known for her widely discussed 2014 article in Pacific Standard, "Why Women Aren't Welcome on the Internet,"[5][6] which detailed her and other women's experiences as victims of misogynistic online harassment.[7] Conor Friedersdorf wrote in the Atlantic that Hess's article was "persuasive in arguing that the online threats of violence are pervasive and have broad implications in a digital society."[8] Hess won The Sidney Hillman Foundation's February 2014 Sidney Award for her Pacific Standard essay.[9] The essay also won the 2015 American Society of Magazine Editors Public Interest Award.[10]
References
- ^ "Amanda Hess". Slate. Retrieved 21 February 2016.
- ^ Hess, Amanda (10 June 2016). "For the Alt-Right, the Message Is in the Punctuation". Retrieved 19 December 2017 – via NYTimes.com.
- ^ "Amanda Hess website". Retrieved 21 February 2016.
- ^ Somaiya, Ravi (2016-02-23). "New York Times Awards David Carr Fellowships to 3 Journalists". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-03-08.
- ^ Hess, Amanda (6 January 2014). "Why Women Aren't Welcome on the Internet". Pacific Standard. Retrieved 21 February 2016.
- ^ Young, Cathy (4 September 2014). "Men Are Harassed More Than Women Online". Daily Beast. Retrieved 21 February 2016.
- ^ Raja, Tasneem (10 January 2014). "Amanda Hess: "Why Women Aren't Welcome on the Internet"". Mother Jones. Retrieved 21 February 2016.
- ^ Friedersdorf, Conor (7 January 2014). "When Misogynist Trolls Make Journalism Miserable for Women". The Atlantic. Retrieved 21 February 2016.
- ^ "Amanda Hess Wins February Sidney Award for "The Next Civil Rights Issue: Why Women Aren't Welcome on the Internet"". The Sidney Hillman Foundation. February 2014. Retrieved 21 February 2016.
- ^ "National Magazine Awards 2015 Winners Announced | ASME". www.magazine.org. Retrieved 2016-03-08.